An Examination of the Doctrine of the Natural Evolution of the Mind: Or, the Distinctive Features of Scientific and Spiritual KnowledgeWilliams and Norgate, 1883 - 27 strani |
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98TH SESSION Agnostic animal sensations antithesis Atheism attention B.Sc belief capable cause consciousness COVENT GARDEN DELIVERED IN MANCHESTER difference EDINBURGH endeavour essential eternal ethical ideas Evolution as applied EVOLUTION OF MIND evolutionary theory existence explicable Fiske's Force HENRIETTA STREET human evolution human nature gains incompatibility intel intelligible Jesus liberal Christian MANCHESTER NEW COLLEGE MENTAL AND MORAL mental science mining and responsible MORAL PHILOSOPHY NATURAL EVOLUTION neces necessarily present necessity nity object of thought objects of Nature original causality passive pessimism pheno phenomenal sciences philosophy physical sciences possible Priestley process of change Prof rational recent Evolutionists religious result reveals Savage SCIENTIFIC AND SPIRITUAL scientific perception sciousness self-conscious mind self-deter self-determining power series of feelings SOUTH FREDERICK STREET spiritual theory stage student of Mind study of Nature succession of animal sympathy theologians theology theory of human thinking subject tion true utterly view of human vis viva wholly the study
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Stran 24 - Yoltaires would arise, and not only say that, if there were no God, it would be necessary to invent one...
Stran 17 - If, therefore, we speak of the Mind as a series of feelings, we are obliged to complete the statement by calling it a series of feelings which is aware of itself as past and future : and we are reduced to the alternative of believing that the Mind, or Ego, is something different from any series of feelings, or possibilities of them, or of accepting the paradox, that something which ex hypothesi is but a series of feelings, can be aware of itself as a series.
Stran 18 - ... he exerts a free activity, — an activity which is not in time, not a link in the chain of natural becoming, which has no antecedents other than itself but is self-originated. There is no incompatibility between this doctrine and the admission that all the processes of brain and nerve and tissue, all the functions of life and sense, organic to this activity (though even they, as in the thinking man, cannot, for reasons given, properly be held to be merely natural), have a strictly natural history.
Stran 10 - Nature conceals God: for through her whole domain Nature reveals only fate, only an indissoluble chain of mere efficient causes without beginning and without end, excluding, with equal necessity, both providence and chance.
Stran 19 - We cannot, of course, speak with perfect assurance on this point, for we are unable to enter into their states of feeling and pronounce confidently whether or not there is anything there corresponding to the consciousness which we exercise in knowledge ; but we may fairly say, with Mr. Green, that " their actions, as observed from the outside, would seem to be explicable without it, — explicable as resulting from the determination of action by feeling, and that of feeling by feeling ; in other...
Stran 14 - Not the picture of a man ; but the representation of an automaton, that is what it cannot help being ; a phantom dreaming what it cannot but dream ; an engine performing what it must perform ; an incarnate reverie ; a weathercock shifting helplessly in the winds of sensibility ; a wretched...
Stran 10 - God and what supposes liberty, — the virtuous, the immortal. "•Man reveals God: for man, by his intelligence, rises above nature, and, in virtue of this intelligence, is conscious of himself as a power not only independent of, but opposed to, nature, and capable of resisting, conquering, and controlling her.
Stran 18 - Nature, with all that belongs to it, is a process of change : change on a uniform method, no doubt, but change still. All the relations under which we know it are relations in the way of change or by which change is determined. But neither can any process of change yield a consciousness of itself, which, in order to be a consciousness of the change, must be equally present to all stages of the change ; nor can any consciousness of change, since the whole of it must be present at once, be itself a...
Stran 17 - ... the discussion of this subject furnished by the lamented Prof. TH Green in his criticism of John Stuart Mill. The other states the prospect before humanity as described by the eminent evolutionist, Henry Maudsley, and compares it with the happier outcome cherished by the spiritual philosopher : — A recent and conclusive refutation of this theory of the genesis of a permanent self-conscious Ego out of an ever-changing succession of animal sensations has been furnished by the late lamented Prof....
Stran 23 - ... individuals; they in turn will yield place to simpler and feebler unions of still more degraded beings; species after species of animals and plants will first degenerate and then become extinct, as the worsening conditions of life render it impossible for them to continue the struggle for existence; a few scattered families of degraded human beings living perhaps in snow huts near the equator, very much as Esquimaux live now near the pole, will represent the last wave of the receding tide of...